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TV programmes are now reverting to looking through a letter box. We have now had to retune the sets because of so called improvements to the digital service. Now there are a lot of films that are coming through that appear to be looking through a letter box.

I am not best pleased since have just spent a small fortune buying a new larger Plasma TV and blu-ray recorder and playing machine and find I am looking at something that is far worse than it was a few weeks ago. I expected at least the screen would be full!!

I have had the engineer out from JL to see if he can sort it and he says he'd noticed that more of the adds are now coming out like that, but that there was nothing that he could do.

Yes. having spoken to JL they said make sure both the recorder and TV are set at 16:9 Aspect Ratio and they both are. I originally had them set to Auto, but that is only showing the programmes at what they were originally broadcast at! In other words Auto brings up automatically what the original broadcast was!

I think it is the way digital is broadcasting, and if I try and change it the screen becomes enlarged or zoomed and you miss half the shots or the faces become elongated. And, if like us, you use sub title because the sound reproduction on modern TV's is such rubbish, they are below the screen line. It seems to me we can't win. The only saving grace is that the TV we replaced is being used in another room and we find that too is coming up in letter box fashion on certain things like films and some of the whizz bangs. Why don't they leave the things alone? After all, if it ain't broke don't fix it!!

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